Coherent sources of vacuum‐ultraviolet and extreme‐ultraviolet radiation are hard to come by. The selection of lasers emitting in the vuv (wavelengths below 2000 Å) is very limited, and the first clear observation of laser emission in the xuv (below 1040 Å) is only a year old (PHYSICS TODAY, November 1983, page 19).

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